This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …

in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency subsidies with information about the financial … ambiguous and highly dependent on the information design. Informing consumers that an LED saves 90% in annual energy costs …How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question …

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers’ work. …

The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number …

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by …

it is beneficial. Similarly, with Kreps-Porteus preferences, willful blindness (information avoidance) spreads when it …